Week 16A

Today in class we are going to go over the final critique of all our web pages. I am semi-happy with how mine turned out. I think my design reflects directly on my web designing abilities. I am completely new to all of this so I can'

t really complain with how it turned out.

Zurb Write Up

I went to the Zurb conference in Harrisburg a couple of months ago. I was disappointed that I spent money and wasted time going to this conference. I do not have anything bad to say about the speaker or what he spoke about. However, all of the information that he talked about was completely irrelevant to me. The main thing he talked about was how mobile devices are starting to play a bigger part in our lives so we need to create websites and apps that work well with those devices. He spoke about responsive design which ensures that your design will work everywhere. There are 3 key components to Responsive design. It has to be a flexible, fluid grid, include media styles that flex or scale, and media queries that adapt to the page. This kind of design is pushing the web forward. Designers are struggling with optimization though. Responsive design also is not as fast as native apps. Kelly spoke about mobile one which is a program that where everything is preset for mobile devices. He also described the Zurb design process which includes 5 steps. These steps are define, ideate, prototype, build, and analyze. I thought that the Matt Kelly did a very good job with the presentation and I do believe that people could have really learned from it if the information was relevant to them but I am not quite at the level where I should be attending conferences on this information yet.

Week 15B

During this class I put the finishing touch on my site. I rearranged a lot of the elements that I had on my page in the first place. I am really likeing the way things turned out this time as compared to before.

Week 15 Class A

Today in class I made some good progress on my website. I added more divs and got the whole layout a little bit more organized. All I really need to add at this point is the text based information and maybe a couple more pictures to keep the whole things balanced.

Outside of Class work

This week outside of class I finished up the layout of how I want my website to turn out. I tried to set up the html framework but I couldnt get it to work for some reason.

HTML and CSS hints via lynda.com

In the videos provided by lynda.com I learned multiple different things about web coding and I know am starting to understand everything that goes into it and what it is exactly. The informed me on exactly what cascading style sheets are and different types of things that I can do in order to make sure that CSS is used in the correct way. I know that HTML controls the document structure, and CSS, controls the look and feel. I learned that when you write CSS you are actually replacing default browser styling that has already existed. I learned all about the syntax of CSS and how it is properly set up. The videos also explained how HTML and CSS go hand in hand with each other. HTML is the language that makes it possible for different computers to communicate with each other. This, to my understanding, is the backbone of web coding. The lynda videos went in depth on how HTML is written and the different kinds of properties it can express. These properties include understanding whitespace and comments, displaying text with paragraphs, applying style to my HTML code, using block and inline tags, and Displaying characters with reference. The whole process of coding is very new to me. My knowledge barely exceeds copying and pasting code to edit a social networking page. I am starting to grasp how it actually works now. 

These past couple of classes...

So far in the past couple of classes I have learned a lot of different things. This whole coding thing is completely new to me so it is kind of challenging to grasp but it is slowly coming. I am starting to realize that this is really its own kind of language that is designed for the computer to understand. The whole process makes sense to me it is just a matter of memorizing the specific commands and what they actually do. Thus far I have learned how to set up a web page and design it, very basically,  through using css combined with my html code.